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Jacksonville’s Poorest Residents Live in the Worst Flood Zones
Nov 18th
Jacksonville’s Poorest Residents Live in the Worst Flood Zones
Capitalism at it’s worst
MEREDITH RUTLAND BAUER NOV 15, 2017
“We are okay with those areas being a danger and a disaster waiting to happen.”
“What these buyers didn’t know—or what they chose to risk—was that these neighborhoods were cheaper because the homes were built in a flood zone without underground drainage or nearby retention ponds, which state law didn’t require until the early ‘80s.”
“Nationally, areas with known flooding—which, like the Northside homes, were usually built half a century ago—are going to be valued much lower than areas with proper drainage and flood protection. Residents who settle there “don’t have other options,” Dickerson said. This cheap property comes back to bite residents when a storm comes knocking. “There’s a lot of people on the Northside who need a lot of help,’ Washington said. “A lot of these people just did not know they were in flood plains. A lot of them didn’t have flood insurance because they just did not know.’”
Has anything changed since John Steinbeck wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”?
Since when are facts a “distraction?”
Nov 18th
“BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Many nations’ view that the United States should do more to fight climate change because it is the biggest historical emitter is a ‘distraction’ from technological innovation, an adviser to the President said on Thursday.”
Since when are facts a “distraction”? What happened to the “technological innovation” around the Keystone Pipeline? Sadly, I realize that I am complicit in not speaking out about this kind of nonsense.
The evidence speaks for itself
Nov 18th
Native News Online.net
BY LEVI RICKERT / CURRENTS / 18 NOV 2017
“The evidence speaks for itself.”
“EAGLE BUTTE, SOUTH DAKOTA – American Indian tribes have opposed the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline since it was announced. The tribes have longed fear the danger of oil leaks which are inevitable.
After the existing Keystone oil pipeline leaked 210,000 gallons of oil on Thursday, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazer released the following statement:
On November 16, 2017, the existing Keystone pipeline spilled more than 210,000 gallons of Alberta tar sands crude oil within miles of the Lake Traverse Sioux, our sister Tribe. This was the third pipeline spill in the State of South Dakota this year alone. It was also the largest Keystone spill to date in South Dakota. I condemn this oil spill, the company that built this pipeline and anybody associated with it. The evidence speaks for itself.”